President Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that left- and right-wing extremists became violent during a weekend rally by white nationalists in Virginia, reigniting a political firestorm over U.S. race relations and his own leadership of a national crisis. Trump, who drew sharp criticism from Republicans and Democrats for his initial[…]
At least nine people, including an election candidate, have been killed in the past 24 hours in Venezuela as the country voted for an all-powerful new legislative body tasked with reforming the constitution. Country’s opposition parties boycotted Sunday’s polls, which they say is aimed at consolidating President Nicolas Maduro’s power.[…]
The purpose of prosecuting protest convenors who fail to notify authorities of gatherings is to deter violence and increase peaceful assemblies, the Western Cape High Court heard on Thursday. “We say that unnotified gatherings must be deterred because they have a higher propensity for becoming violent,” argued Advocate Karrisha Pillay,[…]
During Ramadan, which is the holiest and the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, Muslims abstain from food, drink, sex and immoral acts from sunrise to sunset. It is one of the most important Muslim practices — the Five Pillars of Islam — and just the second below the[…]
By Melanie Sauer The sheer violence and brutality that children are exposed to in the Western Cape on a daily basis is severe. That’s according to one expert, working in the field of gender research commenting on a spate of horrific murders of young girls in Cape Town. Fear and[…]
Religious leaders have condemned the spate of violent attacks which have marred the start of the New Year. On New Year’s Eve, Saturday 31 December, a bomb blast and a suicide attack killed 25 people and injured many others in a busy market in central Baghdad. The attack was claimed[…]
The International Peace College South Africa (IPSA) will be hosting its annual IPSA Women in Islam – Women in South Africa Symposium on campus this Saturday, 29 October. The WIWISA symposium is an important flagship event on IPSA’s annual academic calendar, as it initiates important conversations and engaging debates on[…]
Thoko Didiza‚ the African National Congress mayoral candidate for the City of Tshwane‚ has appealed to metro residents to end the wave of protests that greeted her selection. Didiza also said she does not feel the violence that has swept over Tshwane is a reflection of how people feel about[…]
United Nations peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said on Wednesday troops would be sent home from a U.N. mission in South Sudan due to their response to deadly violence at a compound. The United Nations said on Tuesday that an inquiry found that confusion over command and control and rules of[…]
In figures it calls “staggering”, the United Nations says almost 19,000 civilians have been killed and more than 36,000 wounded in violence in Iraq since the start of 2014. In a new joint report published on Tuesday, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq and the Office of the United[…]
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